Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 2

THE FEVENING STAR., WASHT SDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928, TREASURY CLOC DAYS KNOWS ' HOVERENTERED_ WNRRUNDRAE e e - Secretary Files Candidacy| at 28. for Presidency in Neigh- boring State. {Watchman Believes Hands | Will Start March Right at | The certificate of candidacy of Her-| Mldnlght Tonight. bert Hoover for the Ropublican presi- 1 nomination was formally filed with Secretary of State D. C ¥ - ner Maryland at Annapolis yes- ! | Department second State in which Mr. | year s fled fo NIt has two faces. but since it was 1 nomination. T! - [repaired has never been known to lic. he Maryland official was {One face tells the time of the day and | al feo | the other face identifies the day of the | week. the month and the date of the | o month, | ped and| Bt ‘the old clock, which was resur- befare A [rected from the United States Mint at 1 the District of Colum- | Zarson City, Nev.. when it was about | by the Marviand-Hoover-{fo be sold for junk, has an uncanny | smittee through J.|ability of registering correctly the | han as president to the | 30-Gay months and the 31-day months. | e At ARBRSOHE: The single hand pointing to the date | 5 {of the month will jump on the last day | ed Delegation. of a 30-day month, missing the 31st, | primary Jaw 'and start the next month off on time. | n files for Last year, according to reports at the | instructed | Treasury, it jumped from February 28 sublican national |to March 1 overnight, as it should. | re be more votes |But today the hand pointed on the | portion of the units of | token of leap year to the date of Wed- vor of an uninstructed | nesaa., February 29 therefore, necessary in | At midnign? fonight will the hand | a candidate file to secure | jump across 30 ana 31 to Thursday, | 1 the State, as other- |March 1?2 The clock repairer of the | & could file at ile last | Treasury. who started it running again | ure an instructed dele- @ few years ago. believes it will, so| was the real | does every one in the office of the| e Republican voters. The | director of the mint, where the time- date s May 7. and | worn piece hangs on the wall. & is April 21 The dial of the calendar is old and | | | of An ancient timepieée at the Treasury knew today it was leap This is Hoover prestder cate sen accompanied conver cast the State unless tk K WHICH TELLS IT'S LEAP YEAR and retouched with paint. but old dates | . 1860 and 1862 dimly | of patents in 1854 show through the fading design. The name of the maker, believed to be a well known old firm, is partly oblit- crated. The night watchman, if he can get into the room with his pass key at the mystic hour of midnight when the wheels begin to turn the dial, ex- pects to take a peek to sce whether the old monarch will be able with its ancient works to make the jump cor- vectly from Wednesday. February 29, to Thursday, March 1. “Tomorrow morn- ing’s light will tell the tale. o part of Mr. Hoover chipped. it has been slightly repaired Republican nomination. | Hoaver's certificate of can- of his name in Ohio = : her evidence of cv was being filed in Maryland, his | § Vs Ue ’ ' ‘ to the Borah dry ques- | | tionnaire was attacked in the House by rkansas Demo- | hat it was nnl‘ Mr. Tillman said that he represented | | himself and other drys who did not { think the Secretary’s answer to the Tdaho Senator was responsive. Issue Evaded. ink his reputation for candor ourage has suffered by this an- Tillman declared. “The thing Senator Borah stressed mainly was whether or not Mr. Hoover favored incorporating in the next Republican na'uaml platform a plank specmcau_\u; Andrew Y. Bradley, 54 years old, refernng to the eighteenth amendment. | prominent lawyer of this city and the “He also particularly wanted to ki v e ‘ d 10 KNOW | (1 of the late Justice Andrew C. Brad- whether Mr. Hoover favored & program of legislation which would enable every | lev of the District Supreme Court, died State to determine for itself the! at his r i t . Sloobelic. content of beverages o be | aents rant miant Death was die to manufactured. sold and transported | pneumonia. throughout the country. That is the| ~Mr. Bradley was a member of the real jssue that he should have met, and | pay of the United States Supreme he dodged it, by the use of words. Words. | Court and of the bar of the Supreme words, signifying nothing. The real| Court of the District of Columbia. He fssue between the wets and drys is 10t | gas a founder of the Lawyers' Club the .n-penl of the eighteenth amend- ' here and a member of the Society of ment, Dot the yeturn of the saloon, but | Natives of the District of Columbia. e he wolstead act Snall .be| A native of this city. Mr. Bradley was T their own v d’;‘wm:“: “":h' educated at the old Columbian Prepara- | B h g the | ory School, the Columbian College and | sicoholic content of intoxicating liquors. | 4¢ the Columbian Law School, now a " | Favors Draft Plan. part of George Washington University. “Mr. Hoover knew that and made a | He studied law while serving as a bid for the wet votes in Ohio and else- | sistant clerk in the District Supreme where by declining to be irenk in his Court and had practicel { Prominent Lawyer Was Son of Late Justice of D. C. Supreme Court. g and swer, | By the Associated Press The Collier trophy award, which this | | year goes to Charles L. Lawrence for | | pioneering work in the development of | | the air-cooled radial engine for air- | planes, will be presented by Presiden | Coolidge March 10. The National Aero- | nautic Association completed its ar-| | rangements for the ceremony yesterday ! Lawrence designed the original model of the engines used by Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin, Maitland and a number | of other famous pilots. ‘The trophy is awarded annually by the association for “the greatest | achievement in aviation in America the value of which has been demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year.” ACTING RABBI SUED. Wife la., February 29 Red Cross wiil abandon his duties and go on the stump | of this city. of their votes, but when & citizen at- the honor of the party nomipution and | Designer of Radial Engine for | party when those now advertising their Red Cross Announces Huge Fund —The rican | - McCarty is p w0 close th here for the | Teply | past 30 years. | Mr. Tiliman said he did not consider He is survived by his mother, Mrs. it a dignified procedure for an aspirant | Sue H. Y. Bradley, and his brother, for a party presidential nomination to | Charles H. Bradley, a prominent lawyer o present his claims. He declared that| Funeral arrangements have not been | it was permissible for candidates “from | completed. | Congress down to go up and down the | e counties and to grin the sovereigns out | i :::ns“me proportions that fit nim for | LAWRENCE WILL GET | ne White House and he desires to go there he should announce tnat he uozs‘ AIR AWARD MARCH 10| not choose to enter into a scramble for | modestly wait to be drafted.” ‘The present canny occupant of the Planes to Receive Trophy residential chair will, because of his choice of methods, be drafted by his From President. candidacies for the honor have destroyed themselves " Tiliman said. —_— $6,000,000 EXPENDED Spent to Aid Victims in Louisiana. Br the v inted P BATOK ROUG! approximately $6,000.000 on fiood relief in 1 ana as the resuit of the 1927 flond. T. J. McCarty, rellef g’ruw for Louisiana, sald yesterda et wor end of March He drc m of the flond refugees bette, ition now ) were when ood came Petitions for Divorce From Hyman Goodkowitz. Hyman Goodkowltz, sald to be acting an rabb) for the Southeast Hebrew Con- wr gregation and the Uptown Talmud To- | ruh, at 808 Taylor street, was sued to- day for a limited divorce by his wite, Mrx. Fannte Goodkowitz. Justice Hitz signed an order requiring the husband 1o give & bond of $750 not to leave Washington pending the hearing of the wife's petition Mrs. Goodrowl through Attorney David Wiener, tells the court that her hushund resides av 405 Tenth street northeatt, and in addition to his serv- ices as rabbl for the two congregations, for which he re = $40 per week, b makex about 83 much more as a teacher of Hebrew, Bhe says she was married Kingston, N. C, June 19, 1910, and has four children. " They lived together flolk, Vi wife states, until e 1926, when sh forced Lo wue Ler husband for non-support. Goodko- iz, the says fled the Jurisdiction and was nol located for more thun 12 and she ansigns this as a reason application W put bim under the num- 4 food sup- ave been obtain- ent rehabilis reported, e i reconstruction npleted during the voreers bt beer compl conducted 4 in 67 at:trihuted n 19 ooun- 1) ed car- A nyparel er q of the fed kels of in ] nples 00 p WILL “DRESS.UP” ANGORA. Re HOOVER OUT IN MICHIGAN, % Turkey Decrees Budget for Ly A Hoover preference L were re B - wilnougt wodeling of Capita) ANTINOPL Felruary 29 ‘Turkish government hss ae Ve st crude cap) must be embel- rhert a» )L ed 1hat Angors of the new Turkey A #td TeCOLAT I « purpose &n organization will be crented which will linve w budget set artde for 18 work wnnuully 44 000 r’ NOONDAY LENTEN SERVICES KEVTHS THEATER ) Cayit tce Butley of tie Distcl Bupreme yesterduy w sulu o 6t bW 1o wvuld Jocking up & ol Jury of sine men and iree women, who | tailed reachi wn o wgreement aften several Bours of dellberation e per witted e Jurors Lo sepurate and di rected thut ey wasenihle Uiin morong o venew their delbertions — No objec- | vion vias taken by counse) W the setion [6f the court There s aaid Lo be no | precedent for such separation of & Jury in this DAstAct sfler \he came a 8ub- mited The cane of Henry cilble eplesmatn, sguinet Warhilngbn late rewchied FEUERATION OF CHUNCHES SPEAKER THIS WEEK Dr. Jaseph R Sizoo York Avenie Freehylerian Church New B Grogan, n resl | e QGulhsie ANDREW Y. BRADLI DIRIGIBLE STARTS HOMEWARD FLIGHT v Tender in Cuba, Where She Will Refuel. By the Awso . The dirigible Los Angeles arrived at Cuatro Reales Channel, the entrance to the Gulf of Guaganayabo, at o'clock this morning, stern standard time, the Navy Department was in- er to the afreraft refueling before re- to her hanger ut tender P suming her | Lakehurst, N She 1s expected to make at least one lateral cruise over Cuba, before taking off on the 1500-mile voyage home. The Navy Department was informed that the Los Angeles, after taking off from France Field yesterday, followed { & course over the canal across the Isthmus of Panama, and circled over | the City of Panama, before resuming | her trip. Across the Carthbean Sea she bucked a 30-mile trade wind, but forged ahead steadily at an average speed of 34 miles - has made periodic Te- avy Department throun the use of her new type 50-watt high- frequency radio transmitter, which Is belng given a severe test on the fiight oo CITY CLUB SHOW TONIGHT. Vaudeville Presentation to Broadcast by WMAL. Plans are complete for the presenta- ton of the City Club vaude | for elub members and thele families in the main ballroom of the club at 8:50 w'elock tonlght. A record atten nee is anticipated followlng the tran. of the show from the lounge, where U was planncd st first W stage it o the main J.).IHI'I'!’II The show her troupe broadeast by iith Reed and nted. will be lon WMAL, in which will be pr Ttadio 5t Earl Carroll Under Knife NEW YOIUK, February 20 (A) —Farl Carroll, theatrieal producer, underwent n mastold operation yesterdny at Purk West Hospitul. His physielans said hie probably would be able to leave in Labout w week Carroll had been suf- fering for the pust week from a cold, which led 1o the infection 1 Eggs Save Girl in Fall, BURLINGTON, Wis, Fehr A Eggs probably saved the hite Boyenr-old Vallets Vos hieve yesterday | when she fell through w skylight over | & store mnd landed 20 feet below in n hige box Hlled with cugs ) ! ary Mixed Jury Separated for Night By _]udge Sccking Deadlock Solution for & commisslon under bndtted Lo e Jury about crduy wnd when e Jury hisd renched wo verdiet sl g0 o'clock quention arose s (o whiat should with thewm ‘Phere wie no nleep ptitings for women at e anly oo ean [en Iease won ot e b o I wecon i e taling 14 dutlon of 1% 1 ety o verdict shi allow (h Ine win 8 for A 4 depuly ninish he court Diought & A be veuched, so decided Lo Jurorn (o separate wid return o thelr d Fabions Uhils morning When they falled to ngice after Leomple of nours Uil moinuig they were discharged, Los Angeles Reaches Aircraft‘ 11:10 | Be | lle show | C0SMOS CLUB BUYS ADJOINING BUILDING Purchases 3-Story Structure and Parcel of Land on H Street. | ‘The Cosmos Club, widely known or- ganization composed largely of scien- !tific and professional men,” which has {its home fn the onet-ime residence of Dolly Madison at the corner of H street |and Madison place and adjacent prop- crty on Madison place, has purchased the property immediately adjolning its quarters on the east from Mrs. Julla | Granger Porter | The land acquired is an odd-shaped { parcel having a frontage on H street of |28 feet and a depth of about 56 feet and has an area of about 1,568 square fect. ‘The consideration involved in | the " transaction, which was handicd through the office of Arthur C. Hough- {ton, was said to be approximately 1 $82,500. | “The property is improved by a three- and basement office building. to the property was passed yes |terday by Mrs. Porter to the Cosmos | Club ‘and subscquently was placed in | the names of James J. Becker and Mr. Houghton as trustees. The Cosmos Club, it is understood, will hold the additional parcel as an in- vestment, although plans may be de- | veloped for converting the second and !third floors into sleeping quarters for members of the club. This enlarge. ment of the holdings of the club on the H street corner, it is believed. will con- siderably enhance the value of the 'NATIONAL BALLOON " RACES MAY FAIL Cities Decline to Bid for Gordon Bennett Trophy Event, Says Official. By the Associated Press. The probability that there will be no | national balloon race this year, and that America’s three entries for the Gordon Bennett International Trophy event will have to be chosen on the basis of past performances, WAs ex- pressed yesterday by Carl F. Schory, secretary of the contest committee of the National Aeronautic Association. | " “No applications have so far been re- cefved from cities able and willing to play host to the event” Schory an- nounced following a meeting of the committee, “and present indications are that it will have to be abandoned.” He explained that the balloon pilots for the Gordon Bennett event, (o be held in Detroit June 30, would have to be chosen by April 1, and that owing to the involved preparations necessary in shipping the gas and making other arrangements the starting point for the race would have to be chosen not later ! than March 15 Negotiations had been in progress be- tween the association and Louisville and Cincinnati, but apparently the prob- lem of supplying the hydrogen gas and furnishing the prize money proved too | great, Schory declared 'NEW. YORK TRANSIT STRIKE THREATENED Company Union Says Reinstate-- ment of A. F. of L. Men Will Cause Suspension. Br the Amsociated Press. presaging a strike by some employes | of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., operating a large part of New York's | subway and elevated system. darkened | the transit situation yesterday. Patrick J. Connolly, president of the Interborough Brotherhood, so-called company union,” sald {f the ompany reinstates 19 men discharged because of afiiliation with an American Federa- tion of Labor unit, the brotherhood will | regard the action ‘as causc for a strike on its own part Not more than 100 Interborough Rapid Transit employes, Connolly said, are members of the outside union, and the intention of the brotherhood is to see that these are weeded out of the company's employ. Connolly’s statement followed moves Monday by officials of the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Elec- tric Rallway Employes, the American Federation of Labor group, in which | they sought the aid of Mayvor Walker | and Supreme Court Justice Wasservogel | to prevent a “creeping lockout” of Amal- | gamated employe: 'NOTED MURAL PAINTER HERE FOR HONEYMOON win Howland Blashfield Married Writer Yesterdny in New York. Edwin Howland Blashfield, some of whose mural paintings decorate the 1i- brary of Congress, as well as State capitols, courthouses, churche and stmilar butldings throughout the coun- try, was honeymooning here today with his bride of w day, the former Miss Grace Hall, writer, of New York City. Mr. Blashfield, who 1a 99 years old, and Miss Hall. who s 58, were married yesterday at the Church of the Ascen- { 8lon in New York by Rev. Donald Al- drich They enme here immedintely after the ceremony on what wis chuaracterized as “n brief wedding trip” They nre at the Willwid Hotel Blashiield hus won international v ognitfon for his mural pamtings. ie his executed muny notable works from Wiy studio atop Carnegle Hull in New York. He has been n widower since 1918 Me s president of the National Academy of Deslgn [ JOHN WHITELAW LEWIS, COLORED LEADER, DIES With Founded Man Who Came to Capital Coxey's Avmy Bank He Later Joln Whitelaw Lewls, founder ot the nddustiial tnps Bank, Eleventh wid U strects, wnd dong prominent in negio wetivities here, died i Freedimen’s Hos- pital Monduy night, followlng w atioke of paralysis entlier In the day Funernl services will be conducted I the Metrapulitan Baptist Chureh, Dwelfth wnd TE strects, Friduy atternoon al 1 ow'clock Mr, Lewls, who was came here with Coxey's anmy n- the Winetles Me organdred w hodeatlens unton and later hecame president ot e Industrial Bank As w ploneer colored husiness here, he orga the Whitelaw and bullt the Whitelaw Hotel tecently he wan Intereated i deyelopment Me s survived by his widow, Mis Amy Lewts, and (wo sons, Henry Lewls and Kuery Lewl 00 yewrs ol man o Moy realty NEW YORK, February 20.— Clouds | FIRE HOUSE LEFT WITHOUT A SITE Ruling Against 16th and Webster Streets Means New Congress Plea. Barred from using the site at Six- teenth and Webster strects for erece tion of a new fire engine house, as a result of an officlal opinion_rendered by Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride, it developed today that the District Commissioners probably will have to cek additional authority from Congress before they can decide definitely on an- other site, Mr. Bride held that the ers acted “beyond purchasing land at Webster streets on which fire engine house, as the land fe sub- ject to' a covenant that it should be used exclusively for residential pur: poses. As a result the Commissioners are left literally “high and dry,” and | the residents of that section have won out in the dispute to bar the proposed | fire engine house from the site. Must Get Authority. It will be necessary for the Commi sioners to get authority from Congr to sell the site at Sixteenth and Webster streets, which cost in ¢ of $28,000, if that course is finally determined upon by the board. In view of Mr. Bride ruling, it was expected the Commis stoners would go before the Senate | propriations subcommittee, when it holds hearings on the District bill, to ask authority to locate the engine | house at Thirteenth and Allison streets. | This is the alternate site proposed by | the citizens’ committee, of which Louis | Ottenburg is head, and included also | Edward S. Brashears and F. T. Hurley, | An obstacle is presented because of the fact that the site at Thirteenth and Allison streets was acquired long ago for a tuberculosis hospitai, which was never erected, and a part of the land is now occupied by two small school build- Ings. “The unused portion of this land, how- ever, is sufficient for the erection of a fire house, but it is believed congres- | stonal approval would be necessary. Plan to Sell It Back. The Commussioners propose to sell back to its former owner the Sixteenth and Webster streets site at the price paid for it, If Congress will give its con- | sent Neighbors, who have protested against erection of the engine house ther2, have offered to contribute a fund to pay the real estate commission so thai the District can get all its money back Acting on behalf of the residents, Mr. Ottenberg and a delegation called on the Commissioners two weeks or so a0 and announced their determination to enjoin the District from bullding the engine house on the Sixteenth street site. They filed a brief alleging exist- ence of a covenant and citing author- ities to show 1t binding on the District. xistence of the covenant, inquiries developed, had escaped the attention of the Distiict auditor's office when the purchase was made. The Commission= ers then called on Corporation Counsel Bride for an opinion, which he rendered yesterday. Bride’s Views Outlined. Mr. Bride's opinion said in part “The question seems to be whether such a covenant is binding upon the municipality when the land is acquired for a public purpose. The authorit seem 1o have settled the matter in the afirmative After citing the opinion continued Commissioners were authorized to pur- chase a ‘house, site, furniture and fur- nishings for an engine company to be located in the vicinity of Sixteenth street and Piney Branch road’ It is my view, therefore. that the purchase to build a authorities, the the deed was beyond the powers of the Commissioners “The act referred to gave them power to purchase for a specific use: the deed which they acquired made that specific use unlawful. If those persons who are pensated and the property freed from the restrictions with which it is now charged in an appropriate proceeding. then it is possible to use the property for the purpose for which it was pur- chased. Otherwise and as long as the restriction_remains the District of Co- AN GA C. L. Buohl, Dying, Tells of Crawling Back Into Steam of Train Wreck. | A herofe effort to save his engineer, { Eugene F. Kilroy, cost the life of C. L. | Buohl, fireman, in the wreck of the Saroling Spectal” at Marcus Hook, Pa., Monday, it was revealed yesterday after the firemnn had died In a Chester, Pa hospital, to rescue Kilroy was obtained from Dr. 8. R. Crothers, of the hospital stafr, who told the Assoclated Press of a sin- gle sentence whispered by the fireman in his dying moments “I was free of the wreckige” Buohl suld fuintly, “but I saw Gene caught fust after we turned over, and I went bick to help him, and was met by the rush of seulding water” Funeral Tomorrow, meral services for Buohl will be held from his vestde 502 1D street south- enst, nt 2 o'elock tOMOrTow afternoon Rev. 1. W Johnson of Grace Baptist Chureh will officiate, The fireman will be burled in Arlington National Ceme- tery, Hervices at the grave will be at- tended by delegntes from Potomac Lodge, No. 9, Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Englieers, ‘The body of Mro Buohl reachied Washington at 130 this alternoon Buahl 1y survived by his wife and siv chtldren, Dorothy, fa, Christophier, 13 Cheater, Gladys, 9. Thelwa, and Agnes, T months old Mis Buohl, who, with rushed (o the Cheater, Pa, where the men were taken after the de vallment, cotlapsed completely upon her return home Inst night and was under i physiclans’ care today, Iler pirents have nlso como on trom Lan- ciater, P, and are attending hey Mrs Kilroy hoapital Naw Army Senviee, Muohl enttsted I e Field Artillery At Laneaster i 102 and secved at varl Avmy posts until 1o He had been with the tatitoad for the past 10 years Funeral serviees for Kilioy will be held b hix vesidence, 1201 Columbia 1 Lomorrow morning at 8 40, thenve " Blrine of the Hacred Heart Chureh, where vequiem mas will be colohrated ot 9 o'clock. Huntal Wil be I Maunt Olivet Cemotery Hurviving M Kilioy sre his widow Mis Lorelta Fitggeatld Kily, s et two ehiidien. Margaiet, 1 and Habert 11 two childien by A former mariage Thomas I Koy and Mis Juseph HI (wo Brothers Thomas and John Kiloy, and & slster, Mis Jalin”Molarney. " o nder the act of May 10, 1926, the | of the land o restricted by covenants in | The story of Buohl's vallant endeavor | | panies and mysel GINGER ALE * SET-UPS™ SERVICE | TO HOMES BAFFLES OFFICIALS Delivery by Drug Stores and Delicatessens New Problem for Police and Dry Law Enforcement Heads. Treasury and police officlals were confronted with another somewhat extraneous prohibition problem today with the disclosure that certain drug stores and_delicatessens here have an- nounced home delivery service on cracked lee and ginger ale. Treasury officials some time ago an- nounced a ruling to the effect that sale of cracked Ice, ginger ale and other ingredients used in mixing alcoholic drinks constituted a violation of the natior:al prohibition act and test cascs were brought in the courts under the rulin Recently, however, Assistant Setre- tary of the Treasury Lowman stated that the ruling applied only when th proprietor of a cafe, Testaurant or nig: club knew that the “set-ups” were to be used for illegal purpose: The le Paradis case, In which lengthy testimony was taken and which is yet to be decided, involved a charge in connection with the ice and ging ale ruling. and similar charges vere brought against a Chicago night club owner. * Residents Circularized. Drug stores in the Northwest apart- ment house section have been enter- prising enough to circularize nearby homes and apartments with announce- ment of their readiness to deliver cracked fce at 10 cents a quart, together with ginger ale. It is sald that most drug stores and delicatessens in that nelghborhood have been besieged for a long time with re- current requests for “a little cracked fce to go with the ginger ale” and that the decision to make a regilar prac of selling the combination is the res of this constant demand. Offhand, prohibition and polic clals seemed to agre today t no law Is being violated in such insts Home Delivery Upheld. Mr. Lowman expressed the opinion that home delivery of ice and pinwer ale coula not be considered a violation of the prohibition law. Agents acted, +he explained, only when it was evident in public places that the ingredients were being sold for the e of mixing alcoholic dr Inspector Willlam ant superintendent could “concetve of no way such tra ctions or servic construed as a breach of any I hibition or otherwise.” It was pointed out the seller has no | way of knowing whether the customer fs going to use the purchase in an “fliegal mixture” or whether he plans to drink the ginger ale “straight” and use the fce to cool baby's battle of police. CLAYTON ATTACK MARKS OPENING OF MERGER HEARINGS (Continiied _from_First_Page.) phasized at the beginning of his re- mari witnes “As I view it there are three funda- mental principles involved in the p: posed consolidation,” he declared “They are these: 1. Is a merger of the transportation facilities of the Dis- trict of Columbia and the metropolitan area a desirable and beneficial thing? 2. Is a merger desirable and beneficial to the public and the parties to thie petition? 3. Is the petition as present- ed falr and equitable to all partics? Dees it give the public every proper consideration? 1Is ft fair to the owners of the properties?™ Sees Value to Public. A merger of the transportation fa cilities, Mr. Wilson added, will prove “pre-eminently to the value of the pub- lic.” “The question of the value of these utilities is pending before commission,” he declared. “It seems to me individually of the value of all of U at one time is an entirely and practical thing to do. I would like at this time | to clear up the one ambiguity in the public mine \vere induced to make the public a pres- ent of $12,000,000. No altruism entered into that situation. The purpose of it} is to bring about a better public rela- tion. “A valuation of $50,000,000 for rate- making purposes is no compromise This $30.000,000 is believed by the com- 1f a sound principle of business. President Hanna of the Capital Trac- tion Co. took the stand after Mr. Wil- . son’s talk and stated the position of is company with respect to the merger agreement and the reason which ac- tuated it to approve a consolidation. Merger Long Sought. “The demand for a merger.” he said. | “has been expressed by various interests for the last 20 years and in order to meet that demand several previous at- tempts were made to bring about a con- solidation. They failed because parties thereto could not come to terms. The demand for a merger has been protected by their eascments are com- | | agreement more insistent in the last few years and as a result the present plan was drawn up largely through the instrumentality of Mr. Wilson.” The merger plan, Mr. Hanna ex- plained, does not contemplate any change in the powers or authority of the Utilities Commission and embodies but few changes in the present plan of operation of the car companies. The fundamental difference, he said. is that it provided for a single unified system of transportation. The reason the agreement falls to provide for the lssu- ance of free transfers between the cars | and the busses is. he pointed out. be- | cause the compantes did not want to | 10 SAVE COMRADE | mind. he added. The plan he said has nothing to do| tie the hands of the commission in the matter of revenues. Fare Increase Delayed. ‘The principal thing in the pubdlic is the rate of fare fares, 'he fare situation with respect wit to | the Capital Traction Co. today is a very clear one” added Mr. Hanna. “The Capital Traction Co. has not had a fatr rate of return in the last three or four years and particularly within the past vear. The only reason the company has not applied for an increase in fare before this time is because of the merger negotiations. For that reason and that reason only the company has not asked for a higher fare Morcover, the company has not abandoned s in- tentton of asking for inc d fares. “If the merger is not accomplished the company will and must apply for A higher fare. The only reason the public is not paying a higher fare today fs due to the present merger negotia- thons." Labor Pollcy to Stand. The rate of fare, however, s not the only question to be considered i con- nection with the merger, Mr. Hanna emphastzed "1 cannot sce any reason why that question should be & part of (s tovestigation” he declared. He then served notlee that the value fmed by his company in the merges fs bused onan toventary and not on a estimate and that the matter of the cent veturn would be supported later by evidence and ex- hibits | He also pointed out that at policles and questions of service would crmined by the commission as the polictes relating to labor e udded, however, that (here woutd be wo chinge I Ry company’s labor polley i the future Willam ¥ tam, president of - the Warhington Railway and Kleetrie €o. followed Me Hana on the well » with tespect (o the merget agreement. He satd that, in his opinton the matters which the publie v pri- martly interested in can be summarized an method of control valuation, e nomical power supply, ranster arvange n policemen and paving Protection agalint competition Dhen diseussed e potnts as fallows Method of contiol 710 18 provided that the control of (he pany shatt vest I m board of diteotors conststing of 18 persons. Of the 18 artginal wivee tors, s shall be nomtnated by the Washington Rallway and Eleetele Co Ay by (he Capltal Traction o and thies wre th be tepresentatives of th b, nominated by the Pablio Ul fex Commbssion of the Distiiet of Go Jumbla, not identifled with elther com WAV It telt by auch public tepre sentation on (he board of divectons the public, on ane hand, will have a voice I the management of (he company faelf, on the other hand, (he company will benefit from having contact with the publle diredily through (s tepre sentatives on the board of divectors We think this provision should appeal company and reasonable He that he did not appear as a | the | that the consideration | hese properties | d: that is. why the companies the | whness | stand and explained the posttion of bty W, reltef (rom the burdens of spectal | to both the public and the commis sion.” Valuation: “It may be dseirable | digress a moment to review very brie the history of the valuation of certain of the public utilities since the pa: of the public utilities act in 1913. Abo | a year after the passage of this act, the Public Utilities Commission procceded o value the property of il the public util- | ties subject to their jurisdictions. These | valuations were conducted with unus | thoroughness. One of the first valuations :ompleted was that of the Potomac Elec- | tric Power Co.. in 1917. The Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. as well as the Capital Trac- | | & Electric Co. felt that the commis- | sion had erred in certain fundamental | principles in these valuations. | Won Appeal of Test. | | “The valuation of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. having been determined by she commission in 1917. two years in advance of the valuations of the | Capital Traction Co. and the Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co., it was un- derstood by all parties concerned that | the Potomac case should be considered | the key case. It was taken first to the Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia.. with a decision favorable to | the commission: it was then taken to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbfa, with a decision favorable to the company; it was then taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, which refused to take jurisdiction. thereby leaving the decision of the | Court of Appeals of the rict of | Columbia final, and the principles | therein outlined binding in other cases pending before our courts. Final set- | tlement of this case was reached by | agreement between the commission and the company December 31. 1924. and confirmed by the Supreme Court of the | District of Columbia. “With the Potomac case out of the way the Capital Traction Co. carried on its appeal, finally reaching & con- | clusion by decree of the Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia defi- | nitely fixing the value of its property. January 1. 1925, as $25.756.880. i | The Washington Rail 3 l-:lecmc“ | Co. had not proceeded with its case, | awaiting determination of the Capital| ‘Traction case. i Estimates Submitted. “Some time after the determination of the Capital Traction case our repre- sentatives had conferences with the Public Utilities Commission, in which it was suggested that we figure our vali according to the principles laid down in the Capital Traction case and submit these figures to the commission | for their accountants to re-check, which | has been done “The value of the Capital Traction Co., a« I have stated. on Jar ¥y was $25,756.880, with additio 2 69 since that date to make a value within the District of Columb: of $26,024.559, and adding the value of their properties in Maryland, $402.731, makes a total of $26.427.290 | | | | Traction case in the v Washington Railway & Ele had a value within bia on Ja 3, adding | | & Electric property of Columbia as of December of $31.340.664. and adding th its property in Ma makes & total value of “The two railroad comp fore have a total valuation 8 447, Bus Valuation Omitted. “But the question bef mission 18 not wk are exact in every d as to enable them o satisfy t that the value of this new tran erty is At least $50.000.000. 1 ¢ see how it is possible - properly informed, to have any upon this matter. You will have not that tn this computaty 1s made for the value of prop the Washington Rapid Transit cluded i the merger “1t would further appea n an question the reasonableness of | 7 per cent return. The customary t |13 8 per cent. There are very few stances where courts or commissions have fixed & rate of return as low as 7 per cent. In a lst of recent court decisions covering 28 cases, many ot them United States Supreme 0 cases, there 18 one instance of & 7 cent return, three of a per furn, and 19 of an 8 per “We have accepted the $30.000.000 not becanse we are not, four fud ment, entitled to 8 larger valuation. by upon the rather inststent demtands of Mr. Wilson for a merser even i aecom- plished At some saerifice to the com | pantes and i the beliel that the com- mibssion could eastly SaUisty itself that the property Was worth i excess of | $30.000000 We have tn the past been | of the optafon that the valie should be determined under the provistons of the public utiiity act” | The purpose of economical power | | supply provision, My Ham satd ts ¢ the new company will be able ta se¢ 1S power At a cost not 1 excess of 1l Present wg fo cast of power to the | Sepatate vatlway compaiies The public ts divectly benefited by | e provision the agreeme e new company shall grant fuee | Iransters (o ANy connecting portion of | Tis street vatlway tes within the s Fover My tam satd | Wit respect o rellef fram ¢ Burdens of spectal poticemen and pav R, AME MR sakd (e conimisston as | revloualy | recommended (o Congress | (it (e companies be veltoved from | these burdens. “for which there 1 | under present condtiions no fustifea Hon We should (hink (he public would | be tharoighly i aced with the pi Vislons destgned o pramaete he et cleney of the servive and norease the AOLILY Of (he New company (o supply the (ransporfation which ts needed by the public, and (hat the legtslation ob talned (0 effectuate (hix agreement shonld elude & prvilon for (he remsonahle protection of the new coms pany agalnst competition . sad My | Haw » | W ¢ ent e | | | “Applying the principles of the Capital | | hawt Iw [ not gy AMENDS D.C.BIL FOR WOMAN POLICE House Committee Makes Minor Changes in Measure Authorizing Special Bureau, The regular weekly meeling of 1%, House District committee ted to a reconsideration son bill to establish a in the p by Pe Republicar Ma Gibeon sentat Tiline which ha ers' order of O December 1 September 13 Further Provisions Outlined. 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